text: Pt.2 Benny Hinns Romance with Necromancy From the beginning the Church needed to give answers to those outside its walls, the unsaved, those who didnt believe they were sinners. So they were in need of the Gospel. The church was to fulfill the great commission. this is called apologetics But there were also challenges from within that needed to be addressed and weeded out this is called polemics . The modalists and the gnostics came first inside the church. The word gnostic is derived from the greek, word "gnostikos.' or "gnosis a inner mystic knowledge revealed to the adherent. The gnostics believe that 'gnosis', is a subjective knowledge of the divine. One of the fundamental tenets ' of gnosticism declares that God is unknowable by man and can only communicate to him indirectly, through ' intermediaries. Today we can find examples of this in the evangelical Church through men who claim greater revelations as they are specially 'anointed' having a deeper ,a greater measure of the Spirit and understanding of the Bible. The Gnostics also placed a high value on Personal experiences as they were mystically inclined. Todays gnosticism is expressed by being 'connected' by 'feelings' or sensing the Presence of God. If the feeling of God is not sensed or felt than God was absent. Im not saying that we dont have feelings from time to time but when this is the judgement call for knowing whether he is present, then it is false. Over and over Paul writes about adhering to doctrine and faith in Christ with no mention of signs and wonders. Even in his epistle to Timothy he tells him to stir up the gift within but he does not say anything about miracles but do the work of an evangelist. Today experience is equal to knowledge . This is how one gets their input, by a feeling a sign and a miracle they have experienced. True faith is trusting what you cannot see, waiting patiently for God to bring the results in his time. If one is going to gatherings thinking this person will bring the answer to their faith they have a wrong concept of what faith is. Benny Hinn who has become the leading promoter of todays Charismatism seems to have had more supernartural experiences than the apostle Paul. These are only a few of the instances mentioned there are many more... B.Hinn "Im telling you the truth you could literally sit there in total shock .... angels would appear in my bedroom at night and just stand and look at me i would wake up to see angels in my bedroom , all sizes, call me crazy but I would even see little boys in my bedroom with beautiful white robes they almost looked like girls but they were males ." (Benny Hinn Orlando christian center, personal testimony ).Notice he said the angel just stood there and looked at him, well this defies the very reason angels are sent, they are messengers not starers. At other times they have brought him numerous messages one which is telling him "poverty is a demon" and other such nonsense. (benny Hinn, TBN, Praise a thon 1990 )"I've walked in the supernatural world. I've seen things you would never be able to understand...I've had individuals appear to me in my room. Not only angels." (HONOLULU CRUSADE Feb. 28, 1997)Hinn still operates his ministry from this basis, "Please, please, please, don't think [we're] here to repeat something you've heard for the last 50 years. ...If we quit giving you new revelations, we're dead" (TBN, December 9th 1990). Actually the srtories get more bizarre along with the anointing getting more violent. Several years before Benny Hinn said, "I could almost visibly see the Lord, and I could tell you what He was wearing." This has now escalated where he can see him When I talk to the Lord, He comes, most times, I see Him wearing a blue, beautiful, almost like a - like a silkish looking garment. And under it would be a white garment. Sometimes I'd see Him wear white and a scarlet garment You say, "Where do you see Him?" I don't know. I just see Him." "I've had individuals appear to me in my room. Not only angels." Where does the bible ever say anyone saw the Lord when they pray except for special events such as Stevens stoning. Hinn describes God as if he has a changing wardrobe. "I was in prayer one day and a man appeared in front of me. It happened for two days in a row. ..He was about six feet two. Old man. Had a .Glistening white beard. Eyes - crystal blue. He had on a white garment, . On his head was a like a shawl - like a - like a like a covering every part of him glistened like crystal. Now, I know you may think I've lost my mind, but the Lord said, "Elijah, the prophet." You know, when that happened? That happened days before the anointing on my life doubled." (HONOLULU CRUSADE Feb. 28, 1997)Obviously this is in reference to Elishas double portion. Hinn connects someone the bible classifies as dead with a fresh double dose. Does Elijah dispense an anointing by appearing in someones room from heaven today after thousands of years of being in heaven? When Elisha asked Elijah for his mantle he told his protégé it is not mine to give. He was told to wait and see if the Lord would place it on him ( 2 Kings 2: 10) If he saw him taken to heaven he would receive the blessing. Yet he had to leave first for it to be placed on him he could not give it. 2 Kings 13:21 "I've seen the presence of God in Kathryn Kuhlman's meetings many times." If this is so he was probably the only one.Hinn states The Lord gave me a vision of Kathryn Kuhlman in heaven, sitting with what seemed to be a group of people. At least fifty to seventy of them were sitting in a group, and they were saying to me, "Pray! Ask God to give you a healing ministry that will touch the world!" And suddenly, I heard Kathryn's voice, and out of the blue, suddenly there - there she was, it's crystal clear. And she in her beautiful smile, the way she said, "Ask! We're waiting for you to ask! We're praying with you to ask "And the vision disappeared. And suddenly I said, "Lord!" and I asked. A week later the anointing hit my life. " Her mantle has to all appearances fallen upon Him. He goes on to prove all this by saying,"Jesus saw Moses and Elijah who came to talk to Him about His passion on the cross! Ladies and gentlemen, there's way more than you know about God! And the reason I'm telling you all this? The Lord said to me only a few days ago, He said, "You're - you're about to come into a new level. Get ready!" And I'm already feeling the rumblings in the heavenlies. Somebody is about to talk to me again."(Benny Hinn, Honolulu Crusade, February 28, 1997). At the age of eleven for instance Hinn claims to of had a visitation from Jesus himself before he was saved (good morning holy spirit pg.221 ) Hinn claims to have had two visions of Jesus as well. (Mike Thomas, The Power and the Glory. Florida Magazine, Nov. 24, 91 quoted in the Confusing world of Benny Hinn)When I was a little boy, I saw the Lord in this dream. It was really so real, it was really a vision because when - when He appeared to me my body became electric just like electricity went through me and when I awoke that electricity was still on my body." (Benny Hinn, This Is Your Day, June 11, 1997) Here Hinn shows the origin of his electric anointing from his visitations of this certain Jesus that he has seen before he was a Christian. I'm sorry but something is not kosher here! Biblically visions had a purpose to give revelation that would be written in scripture, not to transfer power. The word "vision" appears mostly in OT passages and few in comparison in the N.T.. The majority of these have to do with God giving direct revelation of Himself, of His plans and prophecy. These visions were rare . These were written down for us in the Bible. A genuine vision from God is never associated with the occult or the dead. A vision is not a message from the realm of the dead. Our God who is the Living God sends messages from heaven. Hinn is again using a biblical activity to prove the genuiness of its content. He is trying to influence his followers that his extrabiblical revelation is from God and they can experience this as well. This is too similar to Joseph Smith (who started the mormons) and his Angel of light experiences and should make anyone who has the Holy Spirit and knows the word very uncomfortable. Hinn relates another vision he had "I saw myself walk into a room and there stood Kathryn Kuhlman. And I've not seen Kathryn in a dream or a vision [in] years. I knew she had died and it was on the news that same morning. And there she was standing in this room And she said, 'Follow me.' And I followed her to a second room. In that second room stood the lord. When the lord, uh-when-when I saw the lord, Kathryn disappeared. She was just gone ... And now the lord looked at me and said, 'Follow me.' And I followed him to a third room."(Ibid.) Hinn is so infatuated with this woman of who he models his preaching and mannerisms after that he is seeing her along with Jesus. He conducts his meetings almost exactly like hers. Why change such an effective model if it works. Hinn is practicing and promoting spiritism at best and at worst necromancy, secret knowledge communicated by someone who has died. Direction is sought from the other side. However, the Bible reveals that the real source of the information can be demonic entities or evil spirits who impersonate the dead, not the dead themselves.Why? Because the dead are not alowed nor able to communicate with us. It doesn't matter whether we are believers or not their is no advantage. Jeremiah had the very same issues going on in his time 14:14 and 23:16: "And the lord said to me, the prophets prophesy lies in my name. 1 have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their own heart." "Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the lord." Aimee S. Mcpherson and Kathryn Kuhlmans bodies are dead and buried but they have reserved power, at least according to Hinn. He even frequents their graves. This is a Grave Deception. He said, "One of the strangest experiences I had a few years ago [was] visiting Aimee's tomb in California... Friday I am gonna go and visit Kathryn Kuhlman's tomb. It's close by Aimee's ... I've been there once already and every so often 1 like to go and pay my respects 'cause this great woman of God has touched my life. And that grave, uh, where she's buried is closed, they built walls around it. You can't get in without a key and I'm one of the very few people who can get in. But I'll never forget when 1 saw Aimee's tomb. It's incredibly dramatic. She was such a lady that her tomb has seven-foot angels bowing on each side of her tomb I felt a terrific anointing when 1 was there. 1 actually, hear this,' I trembled when I visited Aimee's tomb. I was shaking all over. God's power came all over me. ... I believe the anointing has lingered over Aimee's body. Someone asked me how is it you can feel the anointing around a tomb? I have no idea man, but I sure felt it. Your gonna feel the anointing...Ive heard of people healed when they visited their tomb... ( Double Portion Anointing, Part #3, Orlando Christian Center, April 7, 1991. From the series, Holy Ghost Invasion. TV# 309,) Again Hinns facination with the dead influences his imagination. This is in reference to Elishas bones and a double portion .But scripture mentions nothing in 2 Kings 13 about some lingering power that can be touched "anointing." The real difference is the biblical story is about the resurrection from the dead not some subjective feeling "anointing" that was transferred to someone. Hinn has not raised the dead and neither are the corpses of Kuhlman or McPherson . Hinn knows enough to go to scripture to try and validate his wild imagination but it all fails when looked at carefully. Do we get the anointing and healing from dead people? Let me ask you, who goes to cemeteries? If what he is saying is true, maybe we should all move to their cemetery and have church! The problem is, this is not an anointing from Jesus. Friend, you cant even get the anointing from another person when they are alive, so how in the world would you receive it from them when they are dead? This is necromancy plain and simple. The prophet Isaiah talked about the abomination of seeking an "anointing," and contact with the 'other world at a grave and called it "rebellious" and ', a way that is not good" (65:2), He incriminates those: "Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in the tombs" (vs. 4). The worst of judgments are pronounced on these false practices (vs. 13-15). God hates his people to be mislead into false spiritual practices this is why he judged Israel so harshly, they knew better, they knew him and abandoned God at times for the practices of pagans. Only those who are opposed to God and his word can promote their followers to spiritism and spiritualistic practices. Hinn has entered into a dangerous practice called necromancy which is divination one divines by consulting the dead. Lev. 19:31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. Deut 18:11 " one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead."He calls all of these an abomination. Mediums, spiritists, necromancers are those who receive messages from the dead from visiting their graves touching dead bodies by either visions, signs or by any communication. When one reads lsaiah 8 He speaks of a mediums contaced a by a demon spirit. Isaiah's question addressed to the people of God vs.19 "And when they say to you seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter, should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?" The answer is obvious God's people should never seek the dead for any information, much less a spiritual one. We have a living God. So why is Hinn doing this ? Heres the answer. Vs.20 to the law (scripture, moses) and to the testimony(the prophets) If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no light in them." (the word). When someone is not satisfied with what God has already said , when they are baltantly disobedient to him they will always seek another recourse. When King Sauls anointing was taken away he became desperate to hear from God , he received the death penalty from God for the practice of seeking information from a witch who called up the dead. Those who do not hear from God will always seek the occult as a ways to do so. those who are not word based will always seek the supernatural and most often mix it with occult techniques believing it is from God. those who follow after others who mislead them into spiritism will share in their punishment. Stories like theses were not only uncommon among the early Christians but they clearly knew the pagan society the lived in. How to perform miracles or obtain stronger, fresh anointings are not taught in Scripture, nor throughout Church history. Only recently is this being taught by those who promote power crusades. Do you want an anointing that he got from a dead persons grave. This should give one the creeps! The "miracles" we can expect to see in greater numbers today from those whose ministries are devoted this are found as a warning in: 2 Thess. 2:9-10 "Even him who is coming after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved." The word is the truth, but unless you read it and understand it correctly, your not in the truth and you will be deceived by such dreamers as Hinn. There are numerous warnings in scripture about the climate in the last times. I believe in the miraculous and the gifts of the Spirit ,we shouldnt throw out the baby with the bath water but neither do we drink the dirty bath water. Hinns miracles are grandiose claims. The frequency and quality of these healing miracles are greater than any apostle . Is his ministry apostolic as he represents it? Does he preach the whole counsel of God, does he correct error. So what makes one think he does apostolic miracles that were unique to only the chosen apostles of the early Church. Jesus said that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God." Those who promote miracles as common occurrences feed on the peoples ignorance of obedience to the word, they explain away suffering, they dont tell people not to lay up treasure on earth or forsake all one has to follow Jesus and be his disciple . While Hinn was here in January of 99 the ad said in the paper the main focus was salvation, thats totally false. I went thursday night the 2nd night and there was absolutely no gospel message given in the 31/2 hours of my labouring to stay there, It was all farout prophecy. There was no preaching on sin, holiness contending for the faith it was all sugared oatmeal. The spirit that spoke through Hinn gave new meanings to things we understood plainly for over 2,000 years. (more will be written on this once the service is transcribed) As long as Hinn has a willing and captive audience to play to these spiritual fabrications will go on. The question comes down to loyalty, WHO DO YOU LOVE? God, his word of truth, or are you trusting in A MAN for your healing and anointing. If not then why are you looking forward to going? The same faith you have at the meeting can be accomplished at home. Its not what you see or feel but what God has said. If you habitually eat the truth, you wont have an appetite for the lie. The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, by G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman. |


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NORFOLK, Va. – A fighter plane crashed during a training mission in Utah this May because of an engine failure that possibly could have been avoided if inspectors had noticed an anomaly in a fan blade when it was installed in 2004, according to an Air Force report released Thursday.
The F-16C Falcon crashed about an hour after takeoff after losing thrust in the northern part of the Utah Test and Training Range about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City. The pilot safely ejected after steering the plane away from nearby mountains and the Great Salt Lake. The jet was destroyed on impact and the Air Force values the loss at nearly $24 million.
The Air Force says the engine failed because one of its 32 fan blades broke free, causing catastrophic damage to the rest of the fan, compressor and turbines. The blade was eight years old and normal engine use caused cracking to form on the edge of the blade, eventually resulting in its separation.
The accident investigation report by Air Combat Command at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia says the anomaly on the blade's base fell within the parameters of mandatory replacement.
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The inspection occurred at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma during fan assembly buildup. The report says that after the initial blade installation, there was no scheduled inspection or maintenance that could have resulted in the anomaly being discovered. The blade was never removed after 2004.
The pilot and the jet were assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Nobody was injured in the accident and no other damage was reported.

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The Legislative Auditor says there are gaps in Minnesota's child protection system -- variations in how counties and some Indian tribes first respond to cases of alleged mistreatment of children.
The report was fueled by two concerns: That the child protection system is screening out too many cases; and there's too much variation in how child protection laws are applied across different counties.
However, the report found that overall, county and tribal agencies are doing an adequate job deciding whether to act on suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.
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The auditor's office presented the findings at a hearing before the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee. Researcher Carrie Meyerhoff told the committee that counties were given ten hypothetical scenarios that could potentially trigger a response from child protection. There was no unanimous agreement on any of them, and the disagreements could be substantial.
"For example, 64 percent of the agencies screened out a referral for domestic violence when the children were home, but were not present in the room where the violence occurred," Myerhoff said.
The report recommends clarifying vague language defining what constitutes "risk of harm" in state statute. It also recommends the Department of Human Services give more guidance to child protection agencies across the state.
Counties pay most of the freight when it comes to child protection, and they're opposed to new mandates from the state.
They're already feeling a financial squeeze in trying to respond to families in crisis.
Denise Graves, who serves on the Hennepin County Citizen's Review Panel, told lawmakers about a child protection program designed to support families. Family Assessment is supposed to help families find counseling, child care, drug treatment or other help to prevent the kind of future catastrophes that land them back in the child protection system. Graves said panel found three quarters of eligible families were never even offered services.
"From my understanding, it's a funding issue, that decisions have to be made, and we can't offer services to all of those families," Graves said. Graves also echoed one of the other themes of the report, that data collection is too unreliable to draw conclusions about the reasons cases are not pursued. One of the big questions the data can't answer is whether cases involving older children get less attention than those involving younger kids.
Some child welfare advocates testified that they believe counties are focusing their energies on young children at the expense of older kids who need help.
Andrea Simmonett, of Hope Street Homeless Youth Programs in Minneapolis, testified that abused teens who come to her shelter are overlooked. She says a common scenario is a child runs away from an abusive home, stays with friends, and eventually winds up at a shelter after having been away from home long enough for bruises and other physical injuries to heal.
"The response from protection services is that they can't open a case because there are no visible signs of abuse," Simmonett said. "By responding this way, we are essentially saying that we expect the young person to stay in an abusive situation and continue to be traumatized so they can have fresh wounds on them when or if protective services is notified and takes on the case."
Simmonett says kids in this situation are extremely vulnerable to prostitution, exploitation, homelessness, dropping out of school and chemical dependency.
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Gravitational-wave event validation by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. Procedures and challenges for the upcoming observing runs. Contribution to the ICHEP 2022 conference proceedings (VIR-1111A-22)
Head-on collisions of Proca stars (VIR-0370A-18)
High bandwidth beam-balance for vacuum weigh esperiment and Newtonian Noise cancellation (VIR-0576A-20)
High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube (VIR-0060B-16)
ICHEP2010 Proceeding (VIR-0657B-10)
Impact of ultralight bosonic dark matter on the dynamical bar-mode instability of rotating neutron stars (VIR-0536A-22)
Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data (VIR-0002B-14)
Implications of dedicated seismometer measurements on Newtonian-noise cancellation for Advanced LIGO (VIR-0456A-18)
Influence of deposition parameters on the optical absorption of amorphous silicon thin films (VIR-0142A-20)
Interferometer Sensing & Control for the Advanced Virgo Experiment in the O3 Scientific Run [for the special issue of the Galaxies journal] (VIR-0820B-20)
Joint searches of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos (VIR-0356A-10)
Light curves from black hole-neutron star mergers: constraining the black hole spin from multi-messenger parameter estimation (VIR-0200B-19)
Localization of EM Counterparts and GW Signals: a new Python plug-in for Aladin (VIR-1315A-21)
Magnetic coupling to the Advanced Virgo payloads and its impact on the low frequency sensitivity (VIR-0295A-18)
Measurement and simulation of mechanical and optical properties of sputtered amorphous SiC coatings (VIR-1187A-21)
Measurement of the Stray Light in the Advanced Virgo Input Mode Cleaner Cavity using an instrumented baffle (VIR-1148B-21)
Meta-Material Enhanced Spatial Mode Decomposition (VIR-1015A-21)
Minimally modeled characterization method of postmerger gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star coalescences (VIR-0305A-23)
Minimally-modeled search of higher multipole gravitational-wave radiation in compact binary coalescences (VIR-0781B-21)
Mitigation of non-axisymmetric optical aberrations in Advanced Virgo (VIR-0144B-22)
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger (VIR-0594A-20)
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger (for Frontier Research in Astrophysics - III (FRAPWS2018) proceedings) (VIR-0978B-19)
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger (VIR-0593B-20)
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger (VIR-0802A-17)
Multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos (VIR-0717A-11)
Multiband Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation: A Study of Future Detectors (VIR-1204B-19)
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger (VIR-0015E-16)
Observational results from the LIGO and Virgo detectors (VIR-0003A-14)
Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions (VIR-0061B-16)
On the performance limits of coatings for gravitational wave detectors made of alternating layers of two materials (VIR-0721A-21)
Optical Properties of High-Quality Oxide Coating Materials Used in Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detectors (VIR-0025A-19)
Optical and mechanical properties of ion-beam-sputtered MgF2 thin films for gravitational-wave interferometers (VIR-0314D-21)
Optimization of seismometer arrays for the cancellation of Newtonian noise from seismic body waves (VIR-0191C-19)
Optimized radius of curvature tuning for the Virgo core optics (VIR-0584A-22)
Optimized radius of curvature tuning for the Virgo core optics (VIR-0585A-22)
Optimizing gravitational-wave searches for a population of coalescing binaries: Intrinsic parameters (VIR-0471A-13)
Population properties of compact objects from the second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (VIR-0883B-20)
Presentation at INAF (VIR-0578A-13)
Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914 (VIR-0059B-16)
Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA (VIR-0288C-12)
Quantum noise reduction in Advanced Virgo (from the contribution to ICNFP 2020) (VIR-0165B-21)
Quantum noise reduction in gravitational wave interferometers (PUMA22 proceeding) (VIR-0996A-22)
Quasi-monocrystalline silicon for low-noise end mirrors in cryogenic gravitational-wave detectors (VIR-0488B-22)
Recognizing black holes in gravitational-wave observations: Telling apart pretenders in mass-gap binaries (VIR-0305D-20)
Results from the O3 observing run of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (VIR-1289A-21)
Scattered light noise from Virgo viewports: results and possible mitigations (VIR-0704B-22)
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a (VIR-0885B-20)
Search for gravitational waves associated with Gamma Ray Bursts during the LIGO-Virgo run O3b (Contribution to CRIS 2022 Proceedings) (VIR-0906C-22)
Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network (VIR-0342A-23)
Search for spatial and temporal coincidence between Fermi-LAT exposure maps and gravitational wave sky localisations (VIR-1041D-20)
Searches for gravitational-wave events in coincidence with $gamma$ events (VIR-0042A-11)
Searching for Gamma-Ray counterparts to Gravitational Waves from merging binary neutron stars with CTA (VIR-0917A-17)
Section relative to gravitational wave detectors of the paper "Toward the End-to-End Optimization of Particle Physics Instruments with Differentiable Programming: a White Paper" (VIR-0292A-22)
Seismic array measurements at Virgo's West End Building for the configuration of a Newtonian-noise cancellation system (VIR-0505B-19)
Sensing mode mismatch with the phase cameras at Advanced Virgo (GRASS 2022 proceedings) (VIR-0667A-22)
Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run (VIR-0171A-10)
Short gamma-ray burst central engines (VIR-0174A-18)
Silica fibers production and characterization for future gravitational waves detectors (VIR-1235A-19)
Simulations of light distribution on new instrumented baffles surrounding Virgo end mirrors (VIR-0965A-22)
Solving the Teukolsky equation with Physics-Informed Neural Networks (VIR-1182A-22)
Stability of samples in coating research: from edge effect to ageing. (VIR-0457B-22)
Status and plans of the Virgo gravitational wave detector (VIR-1061A-20)
Status of Advanced Virgo and upgrades before next observing runs (from the contribution to ICNFP 2020 conference) (VIR-0168F-21)
Status of the Virgo gravitational-wave detector and the O3 Observing Run (proceedings for EPS-HEP2019, Ghent (BE), 13th July 2019) (VIR-0987A-19)
Strategies for the Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Transients at Very High-Energy Gamma Rays with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (VIR-0000B-19)
Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors: A review of the state of the art (VIR-1155A-22)
TIGER: A data analysis pipeline for testing the strong-field dynamics of general relativity with gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries (VIR-0454A-13)
Temperature, distortions and lensing in a compensation plate (corrected version of VIR-0160A-15) (VIR-0164A-15)
Ternary Quarter Wavelength Coatings for Gravitational Wave Detector Mirrors: Design Optimization via Exhaustive Search (VIR-0095B-21)
Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (VIR-0884B-20)
Tests of general relativity with GW150914 (VIR-0056B-16)
The Advanced Virgo+ status (VIR-0967A-22)
The LIGO-Virgo O3 run and the follow-up investigations (VIR-0500A-22)
The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914 (VIR-0057B-16)
The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment (VIR-0941H-21)
The gravitational wave follow-up program of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (VIR-0653B-19)
The hunt for environmental noise in Virgo during the third observing run (VIR-0520D-20)
The kilonova of GW190425-like events (VIR-0134A-20)
The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3 (VIR-1175A-21)
The research on amorphous coatings for future GW detectors (Proceedings TAUP 2019) (VIR-1048A-19)
The role of eXTP in the multi-messenger astronomy era (VIR-1039C-21)
Tour d'horizon : les trous noirs, les ondes gravitationnelles et la physique fondamentale (VIR-1236A-19)
Towards asteroseismology of core-collapse supernovae with gravitational-wave observations - II. Spacetime perturbations (VIR-0410A-18)
Transient localisation web service based on open gravitational-wave data for the multi-messenger community - GRASS 2022 proceedings (VIR-0686A-22)
Tunnel Configurations and Seismic Isolation Optimization in Underground Gravitational Wave Detectors (VIR-0977A-22)
Using galaxy catalogs to localise gravitational-wave sources: a new Virtual Observatory plug-in to esteem their completeness (VIR-1292A-21)
Very Low Latency Search Pipeline for Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescences in the LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2 Data (VIR-0253C-10)
Vibration analysis of the Advanced Virgo payloads (Internationtal Conference on Advances in Vibrations FEUP, 31 March 2015) (VIR-0175A-15)
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run (VIR-1382B-21)
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results (VIR-0790A-22)
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools (VIR-0789A-22)
Virgo and the gravitational interferometry (VIR-1146A-22)
Virgo data characterization and impact on gravitational wave searches. (VIR-0040A-12)
Working with Gravitational-Wave sky localizations: new methods and implementations (VIR-0630A-19)
X- and Gamma-ray astrophysics in the era of Multimessenger astronomy (VIR-0288D-22)
Presentation requests
Invitations received by members of the Collaboration, to present Virgo or parts of it, must be forwarded to the Speaker Committee. In order to ensure a fair distribution of talks to individuals and institutions, the Speaker Committee will select a speaker from the Collaboration, trying to keep a good balance between respecting the wishes of conference organizers and the requirement of a fair share of presentations among Collaboration members and the need to promote young colleagues.
Full Virgo Collaboration Publication and Presentation Rules are available here


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Yesterday, I travelled as a foot passenger to Calais on the ferry from Dover, as part of a group celebrating the birthday of a long-standing friend. It was ironic to read the Times on embarkation controls and experience the poorly organised efforts of the Immigration Service. After checking in, all foot passengers are taken on a courtesy bus towards the ferry. However, as the embarkation infrastructure was dismantled in 1998 to save money, they have established an ad hoc arrangement. You have to exit the courtesy bus twice, once to show your passport, the other time: to check your luggage. Such practices were not in evidence on the return journey from France.
We noticed that there were two or three Asian men holding camcorders and filming stairwells, restaurants and the maps of the ferry. This may be innocent behaviour but we took photos of them. The photos have been passed on to the Kent constabulary. This could be something or nothing, but vigilance is the purview of the alert citizen, not a monopoly of our less than competent authorities.
Calais, itself, is a nondescript town whose tourist potential is undermined by the large numbers of illegal immigrants who loiter around the parks and telephone boxes. Most appeared to be from the Middle East of the Horn of Africa. For a Saturday afternoon, they did little apart from sit or chat, cultivating indifference to the French or the holidaymakers. When attempting to look at a map of the town of Calais, that a group of them were obscuring, they quickly got out of the way. Perhaps this indicated past encounters with the French police and a fear of transgressing unspoken rules. Whatever the set-up, they have no place to go apart from the public spaces.
The local beer is worth imbibing and we found a well-stocked Irish pub near the main square that deserves patronage. Nearby is the local war museum, housed in a bunker, with jumbled momentoes of the occupation. Calais suffered heavy damage during the Second World War and testament is apid to this suffering with the photos of local landmarks, just situated outside the bunker, surrounded by piles of rubble and destroyed buildings. A vivid and revealing contrast of sixty years of peace.
To conclude, Calais does not cater for the tourist. We had to walk out of the ferry terminal and into town. Unlike any previous country I have visited, there was no sign for taxis or taxi ranks to pick up arrivals. One existed at the local station in the town although we had to wait for some time before a people carrier appeared. One could muse at the unmet demand for transport from strangers which the locals did not appear to consider a profitable enterprise. You could not help commenting that, in Britain, some of those sitting in the parks would obtain work by driving minicabs, and relieving the taxi drought.


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General Privacy Policy
As Piriform (CCleaner) is part of the Gen Group, we are joined with companies providing leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection. To enhance the functioning of your devices and improve your experience online, we collect your data to provide you with the best tools. We do not take your trust for granted so we've developed a Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal data.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in January 2023.
Who We Are
Piriform Software Ltd (CCleaner) is a multinational company based in the United Kingdom, which belongs to the Gen Group.
The Controller of your personal data is Piriform Software Ltd, which has its principal place of business at 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA, United Kingdom.
If you live in the European Economic Area, Piriform's representative established in the EU is Avast Software s.r.o., residing at Pikrtova 1737/1a, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic.
Privacy Policy Contents
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data and the choices available to you. Additional information on our personal data practices may be provided in product settings, contractual terms, or notices provided prior to or at the time of data collection.
Please refer to our Products Policy describing specifics of personal data processing within our products and services.
This Privacy Policy is intended for you if you are a user of our products and services. If you are a business partner, the privacy notice that applies to you is located here: Business partner policy.
Personal Data We Process
Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("Personal Data").
We may collect data or ask you to provide certain data when you visit and use our websites, products and services. The sources from which we collect Personal Data include:
- Data collected directly from you or your device relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("Data Subject"), and may include direct identifiers such as name, address, email address, phone number, and online or indirect identifiers such as login account number, login password, marketing preferences, social media account, or IP address;
- If we link other data relating to you with your Personal Data, we will treat that linked data as Personal Data; and
- We may also collect Personal Data from trusted third-party sources such as distributors, resellers, app stores, contact centers, and engage third parties such as marketing, survey, analytics or software suppliers to collect Personal Data to assist us.
We do not process special categories of personal data, such as data concerning health, race, ethnicity or political opinions, or deduce in any way this type of information from data we collect within our products.
We organize the Personal Data we process into these basic categories: Billing Data and Product Data.
Billing Data includes your name, email address, masked credit card number, license information and in certain circumstances, your billing address and your phone number. In most circumstances, you purchase our products and services from a trusted third-party service provider, reseller, or app store. In those circumstances, your Billing Data is processed by the relevant third party and we only receive a subset of this data to keep proper business records. In these instances, see below an example of Billing Data and what we use it for:
Billing Data |
What we use it for |
Name |
To identify you as license owner |
Email address |
To send you purchase receipts |
Postcode and country |
To indicate tax regime and ensure billing in correct currencies |
Masked credit card number |
To process the payment and billing records |
License key |
To identify a specific license for a follow-up actions such as troubleshooting |
License type |
To enable features based on the purchased license |
Renewability |
To check if a given subscription can be renewed |
Date of expiry |
To check whether a license is valid |
For some features of our Forum it is necessary to create an account. In the Forum profile, you have the option to provide additional information within your account such as personal texts, disclose your birth date, identify your gender, instant messaging number, messenger username, or website name and address, disclose your physical location, and select an avatar or personalized picture. You can contact our support in case you would like to delete your account.
Product Data includes two sub-categories:
- Device Data includes information about the operating system; hardware; city/country of device; error logs; browser; network; applications running on the device, including the CCleaner products; and
- Service Data includes information about the product usage and events relating to use of our product by you such as user preferences', installed browsers and applications, usage statistics (activation, crashes, scans, errors), IP address.
These sub-categories differ for each product and service. If you want more detail about Device and Service Data we process on a product basis, please refer to our Products Policy available on our brand's website.
Why We Process Your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data for the following purposes and on the following grounds:
On the basis of fulfilling our contract with you or entering into a contract with you on your request, in order to:
- Process purchase of our products or services from us, our partners or our trusted third-party service providers' online stores;
- Provision the download, activation, and performance of the product or service;
- Keep our products or services up to date, safe and free of errors, including implementation of new product features and versions;
- Verify your identity and entitlement to paid products or services, when you contact us for support or access our services;
- Process your purchase transactions;
- Update you on the status of your orders and licences;
- Manage your subscriptions and user accounts; and
- Provide you with technical and customer support.
- Provide you with technical and customer support. This may include remote access to your device to better solve the issue. For this purpose, we will process the information from your product and device (e.g. crash reports, usage data), your contact details as well as other information you will provide to us (e.g. description of the issue).
- Subscribe you to a newsletter;
- Enable the provision of third-party ads in product massages;
- Enable the provision of personalized ads in support of certain free products.
- Communicate about possible security, privacy and performance improvements and products that supplement or improve our purchased products and to optimize the content and delivery of this type of communication;
- Evaluate and improve the performance and quality of our products, services and websites, develop new products, train our employees and to understand usage trends, and analyze user acquisitions, conversions and campaigns;
- Secure our systems and applications;
- Allow effective performance of our business by ensuring necessary internal administrative and commercial processes (e.g. finances, controlling, business intelligence, legal & compliance, information security etc.); and
- Establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
- Internal online identifier; and/or
- IP addresses (e.g., of web servers and connected devices involved in the generation, distribution, conveyance, hosting, caching or other storage of cyber-threats such as malicious or otherwise harmful contents).
- For free versions, this disconnection or removal of identifiers begins when the products and services are initially activated. For paid users we keep Billing Data in a separate database and minimize its use for anything other our own financial management activities.
- For both paid and free versions, we continuously monitor for, minimize, disconnect and remove all direct identifiers during the normal performance of the products and services.
- A subpoena, warrant or other process issued by a court or other public authority of competent jurisdiction;
- A legal process having the same consequence as a court-issued request for data, in that if we were to refuse to provide such data, it would be in breach of local law, and it or its officers, executives or employees would be subject to liability for failing to honor such legal process;
- Where such disclosure is necessary for us to enforce its legal rights pursuant to applicable law; or
- A request for data with the purpose of identifying and/or preventing credit card fraud.
- For Billing Data, for as long as we have a legal obligation or for our legitimate interests in establishing legal rights;
- For Account Data, for as long as you maintain your account;
- For Product Data, only as long as necessary for the purposes of a particular product or service. We use rolling deletion periods which means we regularly delete collected data in the given periods starting from the collection of that respective data. The rolling deletion periods for Product Data are not longer than six years. You can find specific rolling deletion periods for each of our products and their purposes in our Products Policy. Please note that when you uninstall our product, processing for service provision, in-product messaging, analytics and third-party ads, if applicable, dependent on the installed product shall cease. After the uninstallation, we will continue to process your Product Data for statistical purposes for up to six years. We have measures in place to ensure compliance with data protection laws, including pseudonymization.
- Right to information - Right to receive information about the processing of your Personal Data, prior to processing as well as during the processing, upon request.
- Right of access - Aside from the information about the processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to receive a copy of your Personal Data undergoing processing.
- Right to rectification - We should process accurate Personal Data; if you discover inaccuracy, you have the right to seek rectification of inaccurate Personal Data.
- Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") - You have the right to erasure of your Personal Data, but only in specific cases stipulated by law, e.g., if there is no legally recognized title on our part for further processing of your Personal Data (incl. protection of our legitimate interests and rights).
- Right to data portability - The right to receive Personal Data which you have provided and is being processed on the basis of consent or where it is necessary for the purpose of conclusion and performance of a contract, in machine-readable format. This right applies exclusively to Personal Data which processing is carried out by automated means.
- Right to object - Applies to cases of processing carried out in legitimate interest. You have the right to object to such processing, on grounds relating to your particular situation, and we are required to assess the processing in order to ensure compliance with all legally binding rules and applicable regulations. In case of direct marketing, we shall cease processing Personal Data for such purposes after the objection.
- Right to withdraw consent - In the case of processing based on your consent, as specified in our Consent Policy, you can withdraw your consent at any time, by using the same method (if technically possible) you used to provide it to us (the exact method will be described in more detail with each consent when you provide it). The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.
- Right to restriction of processing - You have the right to restriction of processing of your Personal Data if: You are contesting the accuracy of your Personal Data, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of your Personal Data; the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the Personal Data and request the restriction of its use instead; we no longer need the Personal Data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or you have objected to processing of your Personal Data, and there is a pending verification whether our legitimate grounds override your interests.
- Right to contact supervisory authority, court - You may contact and lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority – The Office for Personal Data Protection (Czech: Úřad na ochranu osobních údajů – www.uoou.cz) or your local authority or a relevant court.
- know what personal information is being collected about you and how it's processed;
- know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom;
- request that we correct the personal information we have about you that is incorrect;
- say no to the sale or sharing of your personal information (right to opt out);
- limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information
- request deletion of your personal information; information will be deleted if no exception applies (including our right to defend our lawful interests);
- access your personal information; specific information shall be provided in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, in a readily useable format but not more than twice in a 12-month period;
- non-retailation, including the right to receive equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights (also known as the right to non-discrimination).
- third-party advertising cookies stated in our Cookie Policy.
- third-party ads in products listed in our Consent Policy.
On the basis of your consent, in order to:
We will always ask for your consent before any processing that requires it and provide you with necessary information through our Consent Policy or otherwise as applicable.
On the basis of legal obligations, we process your Personal Data when it is necessary for compliance with a legal tax, accounting, anti-money laundering, legal order, sanction checks or other obligation to which we are subject.
On the basis of our legitimate interest we will use your Personal Data to:
Your interests are a key part of our decision-making process and have been considered in all of the above mentioned processing operations. We believe we have balanced your interests against our interests. In any case, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to our particular situation, to those processing operations. For more details please see section . Your Privacy Rights.
Balancing Legitimate Interests
Before relying on our legitimate interests, we balanced them against your interests and made sure they are compelling enough and will not cause any unwarranted harm. With respect to the purposes below we consider necessary to explain what our interests are in detail.
Systems, Apps and Network Security
We process Personal Data for network and information security purposes. In line with EU data protection law, organizations have a recognized legitimate interest in collecting and processing Personal Data to the extent strictly necessary and proportionate for the purposes of ensuring network and information security. This primarily covers the ability of a network or of an information system to resist events, attacks or unlawful or malicious actions that could compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted data, or the security of the related services offered by, or accessible via those networks and systems.
Both as an organization in our own right, and communication technologies and services, it is necessary for the functionality of our systems, products and services and in our legitimate interests as well as in our users', to collect and process Personal Data to the extent strictly necessary and proportionate for the purposes of ensuring the security of our own, and of our users' networks, devices, and information systems.
The Personal Data we process for said purposes includes:
Depending on the context in which such data is collected, it may contain Personal Data concerning you. However, in such cases, we will process the data concerned only to the extent strictly necessary and proportionate to the purposes of securing your network, device and systems.
Product messaging - In-product and Email Messages
We have a legitimate interest for messaging our users about possible security, privacy and performance improvements and products that supplement or improve purchased products. We can also message our customers with information and offers relating to already purchased products (e.g. time-limited offers).
If you are our customer, we feel a responsibility to inform you about security and utility improvements and possible problems to your device and software that go beyond our product that is installed and provide you with effective solutions relevant to these problems. We thus have legitimate interest to optimize the content and delivery of this type of communication to you so that you will be most likely to find them relevant and non-intrusive at the same time. We use certain limited subsets of Billing Data and Product Data to deliver this communication.
Product and business improvement
We have a legitimate interest to use necessary Personal Data to understand user conversions, acquisitions and campaign performance through various distribution channels, and users' download, activation and interactions with our products. For example, we want to know how many users clicked on our offers, or purchased our product after seeing one of our ads. These analytics help us improve functionality, effectiveness, security and reliability of our products and business activities and develop new products. This processing includes using third-party tools. Please refer to our Products Policy for the list of third-party tools used for the specific products and services.
How We Process Your Personal Data
We do our best to disconnect or remove all direct identifiers from the Personal Data that we use:
Processing of IP Addresses
Our third-party payment partner will collect your IP address for its billing process; we do not store the IP address from this process.
For free and paid products, your IP address is also processed for the purpose of downloading certain products, product authorization, and preventing fraud.
Please refer to our Products Policy for specific use of IP address by our products and services.
We do not take any decisions solely based on algorithms, including profiling, that would significantly affect you.
How We Disclose Your Personal Data
We only disclose your Personal Data as described below, within our group, with our partners, with service providers that process data on our behalf and with public authorities, as required by applicable law. Processing is only undertaken for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and the relevant Products Policy sections. If we disclose your Personal Data, we require its recipients to comply with adequate privacy and confidentiality requirements, and security standards.
Payment processors
If you opt to pay for use of our services, we will use a third party payment processor to take payment from you. These third parties are properly regulated and authorized to handle your payment information and are prohibited from using your Personal Data for any other purposes other than arranging these services for us. However, they are independent controllers of your data with their own responsibility.
These are our long-term payment processors:
Payment Processor |
Link to Privacy Policy |
Location |
Cleverbridge |
Germany, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Malta |
Google Play Store (for mobile apps) |
US, Ireland |
Your Billing Data is processed by the payment processor from whom you purchased the product. Your data is processed according to the relevant payment processor's privacy policy.
Service Providers
We may use contractors and service providers to process your Personal Data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and Products Policy. We contractually require service providers to keep data secure and confidential.
Such service providers may include in particular contact centers, professional consultants (including for defence or exercise of our rights), and marketing/survey/analytics/software suppliers.
Sometimes these service providers, for example, our distributors, resellers, and app store partners, will be independent controllers of your data and their terms and conditions, end user license agreements ("EULA") and privacy statements will apply to such relationships.
Advertising Companies
To be able to offer our products and services for free, we serve third-party ads of advertising companies in our products for mobile devices. To enable the ad, we embed a software development kit ("SDK") provided by an advertising company into the product, which then collects Personal Data in order to personalize ads for you.
Please note that only a few of our free products serve third-party ads. You will be asked for consent during the installation process of such a product. For further information, including the exact scope of processed Personal Data and names of relevant products, please refer to our Consent Policy which includes the list of our advertising partners and their privacy policy.
Distributors, Resellers
We may provide your Personal Data to our partners for the purpose of distribution, sale or management of our products. Our partners may use your Personal Data to communicate with you and others about Avast products or services. In addition, you purchase our products directly from our distributor, a reseller, or an app store. Because your relationship in these cases is with that distributor, reseller or an app store, such third party will also process your Personal Data.
Cookies Providers
Our websites use cookies to personalize your experience on our sites, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, help us measure the effectiveness of campaigns, and give us insights into user interactions and user base as a whole so we can improve our communications and products. While using our websites, you will be asked to authorize the collection and use of data by cookies according to the terms of the Cookie Policy.
Analytics Tool Providers
We use analytical tools, including third-party analytical tools, which allow us to, among other things, identify potential performance or security issues with our products, improve their stability and function, understand how you use our products, and websites, so that we can optimize and improve your user experience, as well as evaluate and improve our campaigns. We use Service and Device data for analytics.
While we generally prefer using our own analytical tools, we sometimes need to partner with other parties, which have developed and provide us with their own tools and expertise. Below, we list these partners and tools and their privacy policies.
Please note that not all of our products use all of these third-party analytics tools. Analytics tools that we use for diagnosing your product are necessary for service provision. You will find relevant tools listed under each product in our Products Policy.
Tool (provider) |
Type of Analytics |
Link to Privacy Policy |
Location |
Google Analytics (Google) |
user behaviour |
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 https://policies.google.com/privacy https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6366371?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631 |
US, Ireland |
Firebase Analytics (Google) |
user behaviour (advanced features like A/B testing, predictions) |
US, Ireland |
Firebase Crashlytics (Google) |
crash reporting |
US, Ireland |
AppsFlyer (AppsFlyer) |
user acquisition |
Germany |
Logentries |
user behaviour |
Loggly |
crash reporting |
Public Authorities
In certain instances, it may be necessary for us to disclose your Personal Data to public authorities or as otherwise required by applicable law. No Personal Data will be disclosed to any public authority except in response to:
Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings
Like any other company, we too go through its own cycle of growth, expansion, streamlining and optimization. Its business decisions and market developments therefore affect its structure. As a result of such transactions, and for maintaining a continued relationship with you, we may transfer your Personal Data to a related affiliate.
If we are involved in a reorganization, merger, acquisition or sale of our assets, your Personal Data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such deal and outline your choices in that event, when applicable. Information including personal data relating to our business may be shared with other parties in order to evaluate and conclude the transaction. This would also be the case if we were required by law to make such changes.
Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data among Avast Entities and to Third-Party Vendors
We are a global business that provides its products and services all around the world. In order to reach all of our users and provide all of them with our software, we operate on an infrastructure that spans the globe. The servers that are part of this infrastructure may therefore be located in a country different than the one where you live. In some instances, these may be countries outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA"). Regardless, we provide the same GDPR-level of protection to all Personal Data it processes.
At the same time, when we transfer Personal Data originating from the EEA outside of the EEA or cooperate with a third-party vendor located outside the EEA, we always make sure to put in place appropriate safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or adequacy decisions adopted by the European Commission, to ensure that your data remains safe and secure at all times and that your rights are protected.
Situations where we transfer Personal Data outside of the EEA include allowing access to Personal Data stored in the Google Cloud Platform to Google personnel located outside the EEA, the provisioning of our products and services and third-party services related to it, the processing of transactions and your payment details, and the delivery of support services. Further, an outside-EEA transfer may also occur in case of a merger, acquisition or a restructuring, where the acquirer is located outside of the EEA (see the Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings section).
How We Protect Your Personal Data
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for the protection of your Personal Data.
Administrative Safeguards
Access to the Personal Data of our users is limited to authorized personnel who have a legitimate need to know based on their job descriptions, for example, employees who provide technical support to end users, or who service user accounts. In the case of third-party contractors who process personal information on our behalf, similar requirements are imposed. These third parties are contractually bound by confidentiality clauses, even when they leave the company. Where an individual employee no longer requires access, that individual's credentials are revoked.
Technical Safeguards
We store your personal information in our database using the protections described above. In addition, we utilize technical safeguards such as up-to-date firewall protection for an additional layer of security, high-quality antivirus and anti-malware software, and regularly update our virus definitions. Third parties who we hire to provide services and who have access to our users' data are required to adopt appropriate measures we deem them necessary.
Physical Safeguards
Access to user information in our database by Internet requires using an encrypted VPN, except for email and drive which requires user authentication. Otherwise, access is limited to our physical premises. Physical removal of Personal Data from our location is forbidden. Third-party contractors who process Personal Data on our behalf agree to provide reasonable physical safeguards.
We strive to collect no more Personal Data from you than is required by the purpose for which we collect it. This, in turn, helps reduce the total risk of harm should data loss or a breach in security occur: the less data we collect, the smaller the overall risk.
How Long We Store Your Personal Data
We will hold your Personal Data on our systems for the following periods:
Storage of Your Personal Data
The data we collect from you may be stored, with risk-appropriate technical and organizational security measures applied to it, on in-house as well as third-party servers in the Czech Republic, in the United States, as well as anywhere we or our trusted service providers and partners operate. In particular, we store some of the data in the Google Cloud Platform operated by Google Cloud EMEA Ltd. Personal Data originating from the EEA are stored on Google's servers in the EEA, however, such data may be also accessed by Google personnel located outside the EEA. We put in place appropriate safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses, to address these cross-border transfers of Personal Data.
In all cases, we follow generally accepted standards and security measures to protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
Your Privacy Rights
You have the following rights regarding the processing of your Personal Data:
You can submit your requests relating to your privacy rights and access to documentation relating to appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers through our online form.
The fulfillment of data subject rights listed above will depend on the category of Personal Data and the processing activity. In all cases, we strive to fulfill your request.
We will action your request within one month of receiving a request from you concerning any one of your rights as a Data Subject. Should we be inundated with requests or particularly complicated requests, the time limit may be extended to a maximum of another two months. If we fail to meet these deadlines, we would, of course, prefer that you contact us to resolve the situation informally.
Where requests we receive are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, we may either: (a) charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested; or (b) refuse to act on the request.
For the free versions of our software, we do not and will not maintain, acquire or process additional information solely in order to identify the users of our free products and services. Indentification of an individual is not a requirement for our free products to be delivered to you and function.
Consistent with our privacy by design, privacy by default and minimization practices, we may not be able to identify you in connection with Product Data related to specific free products and services. If such a situation occurs, please go to your product settings and explore the available privacy options.
Your Choices in products
You can make certain choices about how your data is used by us by adjusting the privacy settings of the relevant product. Please check your product settings to set your privacy preferences there.
Non-EU Jurisdictions
Residents of the Russian Federation
We collect and process Personal Data relating to those within the territory of the Russian Federation in strict compliance with the applicable laws of the Russian Federation.
We collect and process Personal Data (including sharing it with third parties) only upon the consent of the respective individuals, unless otherwise is permitted by the laws of the Russian Federation. You will be asked to grant your consent by ticking the respective box / or clicking "I accept" button or through similar mechanism prior to having access to the site, and/or when submitting or sharing the Personal Data we may request. We collect and use your Personal Data only in the context of the purposes indicated in the consent to processing of Personal Data.
We (directly or through third-party contractors specifically authorized by us) collect, record, systematize, accumulate, store, actualize (update and amend), extract Personal Data of the Russian Federation citizens with the use of databases located on the territory of the Russian Federation, except as otherwise permitted by Russian data protection legislation. We may process Personal Data of Russian citizens using databases located outside of the Russian Federation subject to compliance with Russian data protection legislation.
We undertake all the actions necessary to ensure security of your Personal Data.
You are legally entitled to receive information related to processing your Personal Data. To exercise this right, you have to submit a request to contacts indicated below in the Contact Us section.
You have the right to revoke the consent at any time by sending us an e-mail at contacts indicated below in the Contact Us section. Once we receive the revocation notice from you we will stop processing and destroy your Personal Data, except as necessary to provision the contract or service to you and ensure compliance with the data protection laws. However, please note once you have revoked your consent, we may not be able to provide to you the products and services you request, and may not be able to ensure proper work of our products.
We do not transfer your Personal Data to the countries that under Russian law are not deemed to provide adequate protection to the individuals' rights in the area of data privacy.
We do not offer, sell or otherwise make available our products or services that have access to, collect and process (or allow us to do the same) Personal Data of third parties in the Russian Federation without the consent of such third parties.
If any provisions of this Policy contradict the provisions of this section, the provisions of this section shall prevail.
California Privacy Rights
This section applies to California, USA residents:
Information Notice
Categories of collected personal information
You can see all categories of collected personal information listed in the section Personal Data We Process.
Sources from which the personal information is collected
You can find information about the sources of data in the section Personal Data We Process.
Business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information
You can find all purposes of processing your personal information listed in the section Why We Process Your Personal Data.
Categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information
You can find all categories of recipients of personal information listed in the section How We Disclose Your Personal Data. We do not sell (as such term is defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act) your personal information we collect without providing a right to opt out or your direct permission. See more about your right to opt out of sale below.
Our products are not targeted at minors under 16 years of age. We therefore have no knowledge of any sale of data concerning them.
How long we store your personal information
You can find more information on our retention practices in the section How Long We Store Your Personal Data above.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
Under California law, we are required to disclose to consumers the following information upon written request: (1) the categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties within the prior year, if that information was subsequently used for the third parties' direct marketing purposes; and (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties to whom such personal information was disclosed for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.
We hereby disclose that we have not disclosed any such personal information regarding any California resident during the one-year period prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy with the exception of:
Right To Opt Out Of Sale or Sharing
If your personal information is subject to a sale or sharing you have the right to opt out from that sale or sharing. We will respect your decision to opt out for at least 12 months before asking you again to authorize the sale of your personal information.
For more information on how you can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, please consult our "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" page.
Request Submission
You can submit your requests using contacts indicated below in the Contact Us section. If you are a California resident under the age of 18, you may be permitted to request the removal of certain content that you have posted on our websites. We will verify your request by matching your email address and, if necessary, other information you provide in your request against the email address and other information we have in our system. You can also designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on your behalf. We may require that you provide the authorized agent with written permission to act on your behalf and that the authorized agent verify their identity directly with us.
Contact Us
To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any other questions or complaints about our use of your Personal Data and its privacy, write our Privacy Team through the most convenient channel below:
You can submit your privacy requests through our online form. :
You can always reach us by email at email@example.com. Please type "PRIVACY REQUEST" in the message line of your email so we can have the appropriate member of the team respond.
If you prefer, you can send paper mail to Avast Software s.r.o., Pikrtova 1737/1a, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic. Be sure to write "Attention: PRIVACY" in the address so we know where to direct your correspondence.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Data Protection Officer
As required under the GDPR, we have a data protection officer (DPO) to monitor our compliance with the GDPR, provide advice where requested and cooperate with supervisory authorities. You can contact our data protection officer via firstname.lastname@example.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to revise or modify this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our data practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account), product notification or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.


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A new decision tool will help emergency physicians everywhere identify patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are at risk of serious complications or death. The Ottawa COPD Risk Scale was published today in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
"We expect this risk scale, once fully validated, will be used widely in emergency departments to improve patient safety by identifying those who need to be admitted to hospital and those who could safely be sent home," says Dr. Ian Stiell, senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professor in Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. Dr. Stiell is world renowned for creating highly useful decision rules, such as the Ottawa Ankle Rules and Canadian C-Spine Rule.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, usually caused by smoking, is a leading cause of hospital admission among seniors. In addition, more than one-third of people hospitalized for COPD end up at an emergency department within 30 days from discharge.
It can be challenging for emergency physicians to determine which patients with COPD should be admitted because, up until now, there has been little evidence to guide them about the risk factors for adverse events in patients with this condition. Adverse events include death within 30 days of visiting an emergency department, intubation or ventilation, myocardial infarction and other serious events.
Researchers looked at data on 945 patients aged 50 years or older in six Canadian teaching hospitals in Ottawa, Toronto, Kingston (Ontario), Montréal, Quebec City (Quebec), and Edmonton (Alberta) to determine characteristics associated with short-term adverse events. After analysing 20 clinical and laboratory predictors of risk, they developed the Ottawa COPD Risk Scale, a 10-point scale that includes elements from a patient's history, examination or tests that can help emergency physicians determine the level of risk associated with discharging a patient.
The risk factors are easy to determine, do not need expensive testing and provide physicians with a quantitative estimate of risk for adverse events in patients with COPD.
"We found that the risk of a serious adverse event varied from 2.2%, for a score of 0, to 91.4%, for a total score of 10," write the authors.
The researchers also found that 62% of COPD patients were being sent home from emergency departments in Canada, compared to 20% in the United States. They suggest that this is partly due to bed shortages and the resulting pressures for physicians to be sure that admission to hospital is necessary.
"We are concerned by the number of serious adverse events among patients with COPD who were discharged from the emergency department," they write. "Identification of high-risk characteristics by physicians has the potential to substantially improve patient safety by helping to ensure that patients who are most at risk for poor outcomes are admitted."
They suggest the tool could also be used to identify patients who should have early follow-up for COPD after discharge from hospital.
"Once validated, this scale will ultimately benefit both patients and health care systems by ensuring appropriate admissions, targeting those who need early follow-up and diminishing unnecessary hospital admissions," they conclude.
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The nearest neighbor method works on the principle that a person tends to give similar ratings to similar movies. [For example, if] Joe likes three movies ... to make a prediction for him, [we] find users who also liked those movies and see what other movies they liked.Please see also my earlier post, "Netflix Prize at KDD 2008", which points at papers with more details than the IEEE article, including another recent paper by Yehuda Koren.
A second, complementary method scores both a given movie and viewer according to latent factors, themselves inferred from the ratings given to all the movies by all the viewers .... Factors for movies may measure comedy versus drama, action versus romance, and orientation to children versus orientation toward adults. Because the factors are determined automatically by algorithms, they may correspond to hard-to-describe concepts such as quirkiness, or they may not be interpretable by humans at all .... The model may use 20 to 40 such factors to locate each movie and viewer in a multidimensional space ... then [we predict] a viewer's rating of a movie according to that movie's score on the dimensions that person cares about most.
Neither approach is a panacea. We found that most nearest-neighbor techniques work best on 50 or fewer neighbors, which means these methods can't exploit all the information a viewer's ratings may contain. Latent-factor models have the opposite weakness: They are bad at detecting strong associations among a few closely related films, such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Because these two methods are complementary, we combined them, using many versions of each in what machine-learning experts call an ensemble approach. This allowed us to build systems that were simple ... easy to code and fast to run.
Another critical innovation involved focusing on which movies a viewer rated, regardless of the scores. The idea is that someone who has rated a lot of fantasy movies will probably like the Lord of the Rings, even if that person has rated the other movies in the category somewhat low ... This approach nicely complemented our other methods.


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We had a blast with the CoasterBuzz folk on Saturday.
Their rather snarky leader, Jeff, was yucking it up over the discovery of this sign as he drove toward our fair city (er … town) the night before:
Well, Jeff, in case you didn't get a chance to go back and take a picture as planned, I just did it for you.
Since Jeff's a city slicker I had to patiently explain to him that with all the farmers' fields around here, this time of the year there's all sorts of "stuff" in the air, causing many of us to carry around a box of tissues for all the sniffles and sneezes.
Hence: we're in a congested area. (One last pun: Yes, I did "crop" this photo.)


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Eccentricity Dependent Neural Network with Recurrent Attention for Scale, Translation and Clutter Invariance . Vision Science Society (2019).
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This has been the longest break from this space since its existence and it wasn't even planned.
Our second daughter Frida was born in January and I guess with this big happening it was just harder for me to carve out time to post photos or even take them. I also went ahead and moved this blog to a new site and you can find me and all posts from the past from now on here:
I am still working on getting everything copied over but I hope you enjoy the new site as much as I do.
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I recently took a trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had three days to spend in the library while my family was on the slopes of the Canyons and Park City. By mid afternoon they were ready for a break from skiing and I would head back over the mountains to join them. Therefore, my time in the library was limited. When expanding my Irish research did not look promising I decided to put it aside and take the elevator to the second floor, USA & Canada Books.xcza
The only family notes I had with me were my Irish families but I did have my iPad with the ancestry app that links to my Family Tree Maker 2012 program on my laptop at home. At our condo I made some notes on my paternal grandfather's family. I divided them by state and then county.
Georgia, Liberty County: Edward S. Brown b1806
Louisiana, Washington Parish: Martin P., Jessie A. & John D. b late 1830s
Mississippi, Marion County: Moses Brown m 1812 & d 1838
Mississippi, Pike County: Alford, Smith & Fortenberry
Mississippi, Walthall County: Jeremiah Smith
North Carolina, Jones County: Edward Brown d 1787
South Carolina, Lancaster County: Fortenberry
South Carolina, Orangeburg County: Melchior & Jacob Ott
South Carolina, York County: Brumfield
Back at the Family History Library I set up my things on a large library table near the shelves labeled for the Southeastern States. It is easy to find each state and then the counties within each state. In those county books I went straight to the index and looked for my surnames. I found more materials than I could fully search in the time I had.
If you have an opportunity to do research in the Family History Library don't pass it up. You'll be glad you visited.
I used these books at the library:
· Hagenesss, Marilee beatty. Georgia Genealogical Sources. Anniston, AL: MLH research, 1997.
· Ingmire, Frances T. Liberty County, Georgia Marriage records 1780 - 1860. St. Louis, MO, 1985.
Louisiana: Washington Parish 976.311
· Williams, Jr., E. Russ. History of Washington Parish, LA1798 - 1992. I. 1994.
· Williams, Jr., Ernest Russ. A Potpourri of Historical Data concerning the Founding Families and Individuals of Washington Parish, LA, 1798 - 1860. Monroe, LA: Northeast Louisiana University, 1990.
Mississippi Books: Marion County 976.221
· Arnold, Jr., Stanley W., and Louise Anderson. Marion Co MS Cemeteries. 2nd Printing. North Little Rock, Arkansas: Custom Printing, 1988.
· Marion County Historical Society, First. History of Marion Co, MS. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Pub Co, Inc.
· Upton, Mrs. Robert Chester. Marriage Records Marion Co, MS 1812 - 1860. 1958.
· Williams, E. Russ. Marion Co MS Miscellaneous records, 1812 - 1859. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1986.
· Williams, Jr., E. Russ. Abstracts of Deeds Marion Co, MS. 1962.
· Williams, Jr., E. Russ. Orphan Court Records 1812 - 1859 Marion Co, MS. Bogalusa, LA: 1962.
· Williams, Jr., E. Russ. Records of Marion Co, MS. 1965. 3.
Mississippi Books: Pike County 976.223
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike Co, Mississippi School Census, 1878. Greenwell Springs, LA.
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike Co, Mississippi School Census, 1885. Greenwell Springs, LA.
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike Co, Mississippi School Census, 1890. Greenwell Springs, LA.
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike County, Mississippi School Census, 1900.
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike County, Mississippi School Census, 1912.
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike County, Mississippi School Census, 1920.
· Haymon, Serena Abbess. Pike County, Mississippi School Census, 1933.
North Carolina: Jones County 975.621
· Aiken, Nancy Bryan. Minutes of the Jones Co NC Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1826 - 1841. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.
· Gwynn, Zae Hargett. Abstracts of The records of Jones Co NC 1779 - 1868. I. Memphis, TN: Zae Hargett Gwynn and Henry Norburne Gwynn.
· Kammerer, Roger E. Onslow Register Records of Onslow & Jones Co Citizens and Related Families. II. 1988.
South Carolina: Lancaster County 975.745
· 1820 Lancaster Co, South Carolina Census.
· Ellis, Joanne. Lancaster County, SC Cemetery Date. I. Lancaster, SC: DD, Inc., 1995.
· Ellis, Joanne. Lancaster County, SC Cemetery Date. II. Lancaster, SC: DD, Inc., 1995.
· Holcomb, Brent H. Lancaster Co, SC Deed Abstracts 1787 - 1811. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press.
· Jeffcoat, Frances R. Lancaster District 1850 census of the USA. 1984.
· Small, Otha B. 1810 Lancaster Co SC Census. Monroe, North Carolina.
South Carolina: Orangeburgh County 975.779
· Buff, Jr., L. H. The Orangeburg District (SC) 1850 Census. Lexington, SC: Lexington Genealogical association, 1997.
· Culler, Daniel Marchant. Orangeburgh District 1768 - 1868 History and Records. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1995.
· Jarrell, Lawrence E. 1820 Orangeburgh South Carolina Census. High Point, NC, 1998. 975.779
· Jarrell, Lawrence E. Early Orangeburgh South Carolina Census. 1998.
· Salley, Jr., Alexander S. The History of Orangeburgh County South Carolina. Baltimore, MD: Regional Publishing Company, 1969.
South Carolina: York County 975.743
· Holcomb, Brent H. York Co, SC Will Abstracts 1787 - 1862 [1170 - 1862]. Columbia, SC: SCMAR, 2002.
· Holcomb, Brent H. York Co, SC Deed Abstracts 1786 - 1801 [1772 - 1801]. I. Columbia, SC: SCMAR, 2008.


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I threw this outfit on yesterday because I wanted something chic, comfortable and to cover all of my bruises — paintball did a number on me. It wasn't until much later in the day when the bf told me he really liked this outfit and asked where it was from that I realized it was almost entirely composed of pieces from Target. He surprised me by assuming they must be from one of the Target/designer collaborations, because they looked too "luxe", but no, they're just regular, everyday Target finds. The jokingly pseudo-French pronunciation, Tar-jay, suddenly feels much more fitting.
{Target Mossimo top and skirt; Target necklace; Nine West wedges (not shown); misc. bracelet}